Google to sink pirate websites in search rankings

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   Things are looking up...
   
   "Google on Friday said it is tweaking its search formula to give higher priority to legal content and sink rankings for websites hit with piracy complaints...."
   
   http://news.yahoo.com/google-sink-pirat … 19368.html

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      hazelwood4posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Wow, this an awesome addition to Google.  Thank you for sharing!

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         paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         A long time coming...
         
         A second article: http://news.yahoo.com/google-voluntaril … 16430.html

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      Hollie Thomasposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Yeay, PDS is back.

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         paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         I intend to live long and prosper.

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            Hollie Thomasposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            Good.

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   Greekgeekposted 11 years ago

   If you look back at Google's original announcement, this algorithm change isn't specifically targeting piracy sites.
   
   It's a change to Google's ranking of websites based on the number of DMCA takedown notices received about that website.
   
   I think article sites like Hubpages may not be entirely immune to such an algo tweak, since over the years there probably have been some DMCA takedown notices filed against HP due to the improper actions of one member or another. Hopefully, if the majority of a site's content has NOT received a takedown notice, this factor's bite will be mitigated.

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      lobobrandonposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Greekgeek, do you think this could affect individual subdomains? Even if HP did have some DMCA's before?

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         ptosisposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         where would be a link on if/how many DMCA HP has? Can we look this up?

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            lobobrandonposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            I doubt this info is public. Google would have it as they're filed to the

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   brakel2posted 11 years ago

   I don't think it's a problem in general with this site. It's only a select group of people who steal content. Staff has never mentioned it nor have others.

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   Lisa HWposted 11 years ago

   I wonder if they may go by a percentage type of thing and/or if they may go by notices against the actual owner of the site - like the people who set up and run whole blogs full of copied stuff.  I'd think HP might be better off if something along those lines is what they'll do.

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   And another article with lots of worthy links.
   
   http://news.yahoo.com/google-making-har … 00199.html

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   WryLiltposted 11 years ago

   Promises, promises.

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   IzzyMposted 11 years ago

   Haha! Youtube will be in trouble then!

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   Omniviumposted 11 years ago

   As long as mp3 rocket still works, I'm happy.

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